Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
Adults / lifelong learning Creativity AI and learning
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| Claim | Basis |
|---|---|
| C2 | Adults, story writing: LLM ideas raised the rated creativity of the product made with AI and homogenised stories across writers. Measures performance with the tool, not later unaided skill, so it does not test C2; context for creative tasks. Abstract only. |
Review state: first-pass draft, pending human review.
Source note
Syntes: Doshi (2024): writers given LLM story ideas wrote stories rated more creative, but the stories were more alike
Källa: Doshi, A. R.; Hauser, O. P. (2024). Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content. Science Advances 10(28), eadn5290. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn5290
Verified content (abstract (Crossref record); full text not read, so sample sizes are not recorded here, checked 2026-10-14)
- Design (abstract): online experiment; some writers could get story ideas from an LLM (GPT-4) before writing a short story; stories rated by others.
- Findings (abstract): access to AI ideas made stories rated more creative, better written and more enjoyable, most for the less creative writers; AI-enabled stories were more similar to each other than stories by humans alone (a social dilemma: individuals gain, collective novelty shrinks).
- Limits: adults, one short writing task, creativity rated on the product made with AI; nothing about what writers can do later without AI.
Why it is in the library
Added in a targeted search for studies that measure creativity directly (theme: kreativitet), for Jonatan's lecture on creativity, AI and learning.
Metadata as recorded
- ID
- CRE-001
- Tier
- RCT
- Creativity measured directly
- yes
- Titel
- Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
- Författare
- Doshi, A. R.; Hauser, O. P.
- År
- 2024 (Science Advances 10(28), eadn5290)
- Källa/DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn5290
- URL
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn5290
- Typ
- online experiment: adult writers wrote short stories with no AI, or with one or five story ideas from an LLM; stories rated by independent evaluators
- Åldersgrupp
- vuxen-livslangt
- Teman
- kreativitet;ai-och-larande
- Hämtad
- 2026-10-14
- Read
- abstract (Crossref record); full text not read, so sample sizes are not recorded here
- Tillagd
- creativity search 2026-10-14 (requested by Jonatan via Noll); links pending human review
- Full text (fetched 2026-10-16, legal open-access copy, private)
- fulltext.pdf + — via unpaywall: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.00506
The original files (PDF or abstract) are kept in the project archive and are not published here.